Saturday, June 30, 2007

Sex and family values - A male view

The basic message is pretty straightforward: "a wife needs to comply with her husband's desires in bed". No ifs, ands, or buts.

However, the Sheik goes on to note with concern, "The wife in the West is not obliged to do so. [....] They claim she must be willing. They claim she must want it. [....] Therefore, the wife doesn't submit to the man whenever he wants. [....] Moreover, a wife can be raped by her husband there. They claim that if he has sex with her against her will -- this is rape!" (Etc.) No wonder we're going to the dogs over here.

Clearly, anyone who believes that Saudi Arabia is more sexually repressive than western societies has it backward (at least, as far as husbands are concerned).

=> Also some useful advice on why female masturbation is riskier than male masturbation: You might tear your hymen--which could cause your relatives to murder you. Of course, that would be wrong ... you should only be flogged. But the moral is clear: Save yourself for your husband.

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Jeff Weintraub is a social & political theorist, political sociologist, and democratic socialist who has been teaching most recently at the University of Pennsylvania and Bryn Mawr College. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University in 2015-2016 and is currently a Research Associate at the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, Bryn Mawr College.
(Also an Affiliated Professor with the University of Haifa in Israel & an opponent of academic blacklists.)